“They didn’t create the universe. They’re not Manifestations of the Mentufacturer. All we have is their verbal report that they are Manifestations of the Deity. Why should we believe them? Naturally, if we ask them, ‘Are you God? Did you make the universe?’ they’ll reply in the affirmative. We’d do the same thing; white men, back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, told the natives of North and South America exactly the same thing.”
